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From July 2008 to January 2009 David Tennant played Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon and in London. Due to its popularity they filmed the play during June 2009 on location in Mill Hill, London.
2023
A photo of David Tennant from the programme David Tennant Remembers... Hamlet has been posted online. Updated 30/9
A new programme David Tennant Remembers... Hamlet to premiere this weekend.
The Guardian has some new quotes from David Tennant about Greg Doran (who directed David in Hamlet which is what The RSC director Greg calls 'the production is he proudest of'). Updated 23/4
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2021 The BBC has opened up its extensive Shakespeare archive including the filmed version of David Tennant's 2009 production of Hamlet. Updated 17/5
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2020 The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced David Tennant is one of the actors included in a new Talking Shakespeare project online on Mondays starting on 13th July. The date of David's talk has not been announced yet. Updated 8/7
A video of David Tennant answering a question for The RSC Associate Schools about Hamlet has been posted online. Updated 20/5
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2019 Another clip from Off Camera With Sam Jones of David Tennant has been posted online. In this clip David speaks about playing Hamlet with the world's press looking on. Updated 26/6
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2018 Auction for David Tennant costumes from The RSC has ended. David Tennant's 6 items alone raised �11,065 with a total of 296 bids on just his items! Updated 27/4
Auction for David Tennant costumes from The RSC is now live online. Updated 17/4
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2017 Today The RSC holds a costume sale of about 10,000 items. It includes uniform coats from Hamlet (but not David Tennant's costumes). Updated 23/9
The RSC will be holding a costume sale on Saturday 23rd September. It will include uniform coats from Hamlet (but not David Tennant's costumes). Updated 7/8
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2016 Photos of David Tennant visiting The Play's The Thing exhibition. Updated 4/11
What's On Stage reports that in Stratford-upon-Avon David Tennant discusses his approach to his character Hamlet in The RSC The Play's The Thing exhibition. Updated 27/10
The Royal Shakespeare Company's The Play's The Thing exhibition (including costumes worn by David Tennant) opens today. Updated 22/10
New Times Literary Supplement Shakespeare book has a chapter on David Tennant's Hamlet production. Updated 12/10
A photo of David Tennant after watching Paapa Essiedu in Hamlet for The RSC last night has been posted to Twitter. Updated 7/8
Digital Theatre Plus are allowing free access worldwide to David Tennant's production of Hamlet for a watchalong tonight at 7pm. Updated 4/8
Digital Theatre Plus are allowing free access to David Tennant's production Hamlet for a watchalong on Thursday 4th August. Updated 30/7
It was 8 years ago tonight that David Tennant played his first performance of Hamlet for The RSC. Updated 24/7
The Essential Shakespeare Live box-set is re-released today in the US. Updated 29/4
The Guardian reports that the "To be or not to be" speech from Hamlet by David Tennant is included in a British Library exhibition. Updated 14/4
A video of 35 minutes of the Conversations On Broadway with David Tennant from Wednesday 6th April has been posted online.
BBC Store has a plethora of David Tennant / Doctor Who items including Doctor Who Series Two, Three and Four, Planet Of The Dead, The Waters Of Mars, The End Of Time Parts One and Two, Single Father, The Politician's Husband, Hamlet and Blackpool. Updated 2/4
The clip of David Tennant talking about Hamlet (which we posted on Monday) will be broadcast tonight on Front Row on BBC Radio Four at 7.15pm. Updated 30/3
MP3 of David Tennant discussing Hamlet as part of Shakespeare's People on Front Row. Updated 28/3
A screening and talk about the David Tennant / The RSC filmed production of Hamlet is held at The Barbican today. Updated 31/1
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2015 Royal Shakespeare Company exhibition which opens in June will include costumes worn by David Tennant. Updated 26/11
Public booking opens today for a talk and screening of the David Tennant / The RSC filmed production of Hamlet at The Barbican on Sunday 31st January. Updated 12/10
Priority booking for RSC Supporters and Members opens today for A talk and screening of the David Tennant / The RSC filmed production of Hamlet at The Barbican on Sunday 31st January. Updated 8/10
A talk and screening of the David Tennant / The RSC filmed production of Hamlet will be held at The Barbican on Sunday 31st January. Updated 6/10
It was 6 years ago tonight that David Tennant played the final performance of Hamlet for The RSC at the Novello Theatre in London. Updated 10/1
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2014 David Tennant is mentioned in the latest issue of the free online Shakespeare Magazine. Updated 13/9
There is a David Tennant article and he is on the front cover of My Weekly magazine. The article mentions Broadchurch, Postman Pat, Doctor Who, Hamlet, The Politician's Husband, Gracepoint and our Twitter account! Updated 3/6
Shakespeare Magazine has tweeted that they want stories of fans seeing David Tennant performing Shakespearean roles on stage. Updated 25/4
The Guardian has pictures of 45 Hamlets (including David Tennant) to celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday today. Updated 23/4
In his analysis of literature about Doomed Youth, John Sutherland in The Guardian mentions David Tennant's Hamlet as an example. Updated 18/4
Currently The RSC have an offer for both the David Tennant Richard II and Hamlet posters for only �8. Updated 22/2
It was 5 years ago tonight that David Tennant returned to the stage in Hamlet after surgery on his back.
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2013 It was 5 years ago today that David Tennant played the final performance of Love's Labour's Lost and the final performance of Hamlet in Stratford-upon-Avon. Updated 15/11
BBC iPlayer currently has a montage of the clips of 'To be or not to be speech by great actors including Sir Laurence Oliver, David Tennant, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh etc. Updated 23/10
Tonight at 7pm the Shakespeare Birthday Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon will screen The RSC Hamlet (starring David Tennant) at their Film Festival today followed by a Gregory Doran and John Wyver Q&A. Updated 23/10
A Gregory Doran and John Wyver Q&A has been added to the Shakespeare Birthday Trust Film Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon screening of The RSC 2008 Hamlet on Wednesday 23rd October. Updated 6/10
On Wednesday 23rd October the Shakespeare Birthday Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon will screen The RSC Hamlet (starring David Tennant) at their Film Festival. Updated 1/10
An audio of Simon Russell Beale discussing David Tennant in Hamlet from 2008 has been posted to The Space. Updated 30/9
Financial Times has an interview with Greg Doran about Stratford-upon-Avon, Richard II, The RSC and Hamlet with David Tennant. Updated 27/9
The Royal Shakespeare Company have launched an online shop which includes David Tennant's Hamlet DVD for only �5.99. Updated 20/9
David Tennant's production of Hamlet is one of Anglophenia's Shakespeare Adaptations You Can View Online. Updated 16/8
David Tennant's sell-out production of Hamlet is mentioned in an interview in The Mirror with Charlotte Cornwell about All's Well That Ends Well for The RSC. Updated 29/7
It was five years ago tonight that David Tennant played his first performance of Hamlet for The RSC. Updated 24/7
David Tennant is mentioned in The Stage article about Company versus Stars at The RSC. Updated 11/5
Birmingham Post says that David Tennant's famous T-shirt in Hamlet was hand-printed inside the Royal Shakespeare Company costume department. Updated 3/5
A look at the impact David Tennant performing in Stratford-upon-Avon has had on the town and a 1 night free bed and breakfast offer from Avonlea Guest House. Updated 1/5
In a Daily Mail article on Shakespeare this summer director Nicholas Hytner says about David Tennant "David Tennant had years at the RSC. He was a spectacularly good Hamlet because he�s such a wonderfully fine, agile classical actor. Just because David Tennant went off and made a huge success of Doctor Who, does that diminish his achievement as a stage actor? Absolutely not." Updated 21/4
The In Stitches RSC exhibition (including some of David Tennant's costumes) opens in Stratford-Upon-Avon today. Updated 20/4
David Tennant's jacket from As You Like It is The RSC's photo today from their costume exhibition. Updated 12/4
David Tennant's T-shirt from Hamlet is shown briefly in a RSC video about their costume exhibition which opens in May. Updated 11/4
The Illuminations blog today has 7 versions of 'To be or not to be' from Hamlet (including David Tennant's filmed version). Updated 29/3
David Tennant's 'bones' T-shirt from Hamlet and his coat from As You Like It will be featured in a costume display at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from 20 April. This link has photos of both costumes. Updated 28/3
The Telegraph reviewer Charles Spencer is still praising the David Tennant / Greg Doran 2008 production of Hamlet. This time in his 2 star review of the current RSC version starring Jonathan Slinger. Updated 27/3
The Telegraph brings up Jonathan Miller's 2008 quotes about David Tennant and 'celebrity casting' again. This time it is in an item about Rufus Sewell. Updated 15/2
It was 4 years ago tonight that David Tennant returned to the stage to play Hamlet after his back operation. Updated 3/1
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2012 Broadcast has an article about BBC's Jana Bennett who speaks of her aim for viewers to go �from David Tennant in Doctor Who to David Tennant in Hamlet.� Updated 6/12
It was 4 years ago tonight that David Tennant played the first performance of Hamlet at the Novello Theatre in London. Updated 3/12
David Tennant's portrayal of Hamlet is featured in the Open University's studies of Shakespeare's play. Updated 20/10
There is a brief mention of David Tennant (in regards to Jonathan Miller's comments about him in 2008) in an article in The Telegraph about Matt Smith wanting to act in a Shakespeare play. Updated 8/10
It was four years ago tonight that David Tennant played the Press Night of Love's Labour's Lost for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Updated 8/10
It was four years ago tonight that David Tennant played the first performance of Love's Labour's Lost for The RSC in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Updated 2/10
A write-up of the talk by John Wyver of Illuminations on Saturday evening about filming Shakespeare. Updated 18/9
The Daily Record has the news about David Tennant being on the Royal Shakespeare Company's board of directors which we posted last Friday evening. Updated 17/9
The Guardian has an article about people being paid to queue for theatre tickets mentions which has a photo of people queuing for David Tennant's production of Hamlet. Updated 16/9
David Tennant is now listed on the Royal Shakespeare Company's website on the Board Of Directors. Updated 14/9
There will be a talk tomorrow in Whistable, Kent by John Wyver of Illuminations about filming Shakespeare including Hamlet starring David Tennant. Updated 14/9
Michael Boyd chooses David Tennant on stage as one of the highlights of his 10 years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Updated 12/9
David Tennant's production of Hamlet is mentioned briefly in an article today in The Independent about Sheridan Smith in Hedda Gabler. Updated 10/9
The Telegraph briefly mentions David Tennant in Hamlet in a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company's latest production of Much Ado About Nothing. Updated 10/8
It was 4 years ago tonight that David Tennant performed the first preview performance of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Updated 24/7
A MP3 of the interview by Janice Forsyth with David Tennant which was broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland today. David discussed playing Doctor Who, Hamlet, playing live theatre, Twenty Twelve, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists and True Love. Updated 7/7
Scotsman.com has an article about David Tennant's pre-recorded interview on BBC Radio Scotland today. The article focuses on David's comments about playing Hamlet. Updated 7/7
Greg Doran discusses David Tennant's version of Hamlet in an interview about stage versus recorded performances in the Financial Times. Updated 15/6
It was 4 years ago today that David Tennant started rehearsals for Hamlet in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Updated 2/6
John Simm mentioned David Tennant (in regards to both Hamlet and Doctor Who) briefly in an interview on Front Row earlier this week and BlogtorWho has a MP3 of the relevant part. Updated 25/5
An article in The Guardian today about props in the theatre mentions and has a photo of David Tennant from Hamlet. Updated 16/5
Videos of David Tennant's two mentions on BBC television last night. Updated 28/4
David Tennant WAS mentioned on the QI special about Shakespeare tonight on BBC Two. Updated 27/4
The Birmingham Mail have an article saying that The Royal Shakespeare Company are offering the chance to hire David Tennant's crown from Hamlet (and another 30,000 items). The crown costs �20 per week. They also wrote "We had one caller who asked if we were selling unwashed David Tennant socks. The man called three times. He was prepared to spend �50 � we told him �no�." Updated 15/4
MP3 of a new David Tennant interview for The Pirates! movie (recorded 21st March). As well as discussing The Pirates! movie, David is also asked about Doctor Who and Hamlet. Updated 12/4
David Tennant is mentioned several times in an article in The Guardian about Greg Doran's appointment. The Guardian says that it would like David to return to the RSC. Updated 22/3
The Evening Standard uses David's name in its headline about Gregoray Doran's appointment as Artistic Director of the RSC: "New RSC chief is Tennant�s director. " Updated 22/3
The Royal Shakespeare Company announcement also included confirmation that David Tennant has joined The RSC Board Of Directors. Updated 22/3
The Royal Shakespeare Company have announced that their new Artistic Director will be Gregory Doran. The announcement on their website confirms that David Tennant was one of the selection panel. In 2008 David worked with Greg on both Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost. Updated 22/3
The Oxford Student has an analysis of live theatre versus filmed productions and mentions David Tennant's Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing (although it does not make it clear that the latter is not yet confirmed for a DVD release). Updated 10/2
It was 3 years ago tonight that David Tennant played the final performance of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Novello Theatre in London. Updated 10/1
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November 2011 It was 3 years ago today that David Tennant played the final performances in Stratford-Upon-Avon of both Love's Labour's Lost and Hamlet. (However Hamlet then moved to London.) Updated 15/11
David Tennant currently has 107 votes compared to Simon Russell Beale with 11 in The Arts Desk's poll asking "Who is your favourite 21st-century Hamlet?" Click here to vote. Updated 11/11
David Tennant is currently in the lead in The Arts Desk's poll asking "Who is your favourite 21st-century Hamlet?" Click here to vote. Updated 10/11
The Independent lists David Tennant's portrayal of Hamlet as one of the 'Great Danes.' Updated 10/11
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July 2011 The auction of a Hamlet programme signed by David Tennant and the cast for Brake charity raised �112 after 24 bids. Updated 27/7
It was 3 years ago tonight that David Tennant played the first performance of Hamlet in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Updated 24/7
Click here for an auction of a Hamlet programme signed by David Tennant and the cast for Brake charity. The bid is currently �10 and ends on 27th July. Updated 22/7
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June 2011 Friday Night Is Music Night on BBC Radio 2 tonight celebrates 50 Years Of The RSC at 8pm which may or may not include David Tennant. Updated 10/6
The Stage has a review of a book called Murder Most Foul which analyses various versions of Hamlet over the centuries including. David Tennant's portrayal. Updated 10/6
The David Tennant / RSC version of Hamlet won the Best Film Or DVD Award at the Falstaff Awards. Updated 6/6
The Telegraph has an article with the great title "David Tennant proves too daunting an adversary for Sir Jonathan Miller." Updated 6/6
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April 2011 The front cover of The Stage has a montage of RSC programme covers including David Tennant's Hamlet. Updated 28/4
Click here for a scan of the photo of David Tennant which is in the programme for the current RSC production of Macbeth. Updated 21/4
Click here to view a video of a section on BBC Breakfast this morning about The RSC At 50 which included a line by David Tennant from Hamlet. Updated 21/4
What's On Stage lists David Tennant's Hamlet as one of its Top Five Productions by the RSC in the past 50 years. Updated 20/4
David Tennant may be included in the third episode of the Radio Four programme The RSC At 50 at 11.30am today. Updated 19/4
The Independent Arts & Books section has an article about The RSC At 50 with a photo of David Tennant on the front. It lists his Hamlet as one of their five seminal productions. Click here to see the online version. Updated 15/4
Today David Tennant is immortalised on a Royal Mail stamp! See here for more details and how to purchase one. The Mirror also has an article about this today. Updated 12/4
Today at 11.30am on BBC Radio Four episode two of The RSC At 50 has its premiere airing. Updated 12/4
At 11.30am David Tennant is included in a programme called The RSC AT 50 on BBC Radio Four (which can be heard worldwide on the internet). This is the first of a three part series. Click here for more details. Updated 5/4
Today sees the start of some of the Royal Shakespeare Company's costumes (including some worn by David Tennant) being placed on display. See here for a press article. Updated 4/4
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March 2011 David Tennant Treat 4 Today - scans of the article about Hamlet in last Saturday's Times. Updated 29/3
Click here and here for photos of a short item about David Tennant in the Radio Times. Updated 29/3
The Times today has an article titled "The RSC Turns 50" which includes a photo of David Tennant as Hamlet and an interview with Gregory Doran about the 2008 production. Updated 26/3
A new book David Tennant 2009 and 2010 has been published which covers the filming of Hamlet. It's 311 pages in length and costs �9.99 including postage with all profits going to AICR. Updated 23/3
The Coventry Telegraph reports that some of David Tennant's costumes from Hamlet and from some of his earlier RSC productions will be going on display this year. Updated 7/3
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February 2011 The RSC stamps (including the one of David Tennant) are available to pre-order from this link. Royal Mail will post them worldwide. Updated 27/2
David Tennant as Hamlet will appear on a stamp to celebrate 50 years of The RSC. Click here for more details. The Post Office will sell the whole set of stamps so even if you live outside the UK, you can still get the David Tennant one. Updated 13/2
The Independent has the story about someone's quest for David Tennant's slippers. Updated 13/2
According to The Telegraph David Tennant's slippers sold for �50 in The RSC Costume Sale. �55K was raised in total. Updated 12/2
The BBC have added a video of The RSC Costume Sale items which are on sale tomorrow. It includes David Tennant's slippers at about 3 minutes. Updated 11/2
The Telegraph has a photo of one of David Tennant's costumes from the RSC sale this Saturday. However it does not list any prices. Updated 9/2
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December 2010 David Tennant Treat 4 Today - Hamlet Updated 26/12
David Tennant Treat 4 Today (about Hamlet). Updated 22/12
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is about Hamlet. Updated 13/12
David Tennant is included on the University Of York's Student website about Hamlet In Pictures Through The Ages. Updated 11/12
There are photos of David Tennant being projected onto the walls of the newly refurbished RST in Stratford-Upon-Avon according to this tweet. Updated 2/12
The RSC website has a MP3 of a live performance of David Tennant in Hamlet. See here for details. Updated 1/12
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October 2010 David Tennant will be interviewed on a Radio Four programme aired today at 8pm called Playing the Dane. Updated 23/10
The David Tennant Treat 4 Today is about Hamlet. Updated 20/10
On Saturday 23rd October at 8pm (and repeated on Monday 25th at 3pm) BBC Radio 4 are airing a documentary on Hamlet, including David Tennant's interpretation. It is presented by Michael Sheen. See here for more info. Updated 19/10
Click here to listen to David Tennant's interview on Woman's Hour today to promote Single Father. They also discuss Doctor Who and Hamlet.Updated 8/10
David Tennant is mentioned on the front page of the Evening Standard tonight as they favourably compare Rory Kinnear's Hamlet to David's. The Evening Standard also use a quote from David Tennant on Woman's Hour as their Quote Of The Day, plus there's a photo of him on the television page about the Paul O'Grady Show tonight. In The Telegraph review of Kinnear's Hamlet they say " I would put him right up there with Tennant..." Updated 8/10
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September 2010 The Blog today by John Wyver (the producer of Hamlet) is about people recalling their first encounter with Shakespeare and includes a David Tennant photo and several mentions of him. Updated 25/9
David Tennant is mentioned in this article about Hamlet actor Andrea Harris marrying someone who slept outside the Novello to get a ticket. Updated 25/9
In a review in The Telegraph of John Simm playing Hamlet they say that in comparison with David Tennant he "seems like a boy sent to do a man�s work". Updated 23/9
David Tennant receives a brief mention in The Independent today in an article about in Hamlet comparisons and an even briefer mention in The Telegraph in a Jonathan Bate article concerned about the recently announced BBC Shakespeare season. Updated 22/9
Click here to read an old interview with David Tennant about when he played in Romeo and Juliet for The RSC. Updated 22/9
The success of David Tennant's Hamlet leads the way for a Shakespeare season on BBC according to this press release reported in The Telegraph. Updated 21/9
David Tennant mentioned is briefly in an article in The Guardian about the forthcoming production of Hamlet by The National Theatre. Updated 19/9
Some of the costumes from David Tennant's Hamlet can be seen for a few weeks in Tewkesbury plus one of the designers will be giving two talks about them. Click here and here to read about them. Updated 19/9
Actor Keith Osborn (who appeared with David Tennant in both Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost in 2008) will be giving a talk about the productions on 6th October at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Updated 15/9
There's a great new detailed website about all of David Tennant's theatre productions. Click here to view it. Updated 12/9
David Tennant mentioned in today's Sunday Express about Hamlet. Click here to read it. Updated 12/9
Strong ticket sales from David Tennant's Hamlet contributed to the higher RSC profit the year before last compared to last year according to this report. Updated 1/9
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August 2010 The Observer includes David Tennant in its 10 best portrayals of Hamlet. See here for more details. Updated 21/8
Click here to watch the video of Sir Patrick Stewart's comments about David Tennant on Sunday evening. Updated 12/8
Click here to read Sir Patrick Stewart's comments about David Tennant yesterday. Updated 9/8
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July 2010 Mariah Gale (who played Ophelia in Hamlet) has some lovely things to say about David Tennant in the Birmingham Post today. As well as a touching story about their final night she says about David "I have so much respect for him as an actor. He was very lovely to me and very respectful. It�s nice when you appreciate what you can each bring to the show." Updated 30/7
Unfortunately David Tennant failed to get an Emmy nomination today. However Patrick Stewart was nominated for the Supporting Actor role for Hamlet. Updated 8/7
The nominations for the Emmys are announced today (David Tennant has been nominated by the production company for Hamlet and Einstein and Eddington). See here for more details. Updated 8/7
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June 2010 David Tennant's Hamlet which some TV listings had scheduled for this afternoon on BBC HD will NOT be shown due to the football. Updated 27/6
David Tennant has been entered in the first round of voting for the Emmys for both Einstein and Eddington and for Hamlet. See here for more details. Updated 15/6
David Tennant is mentioned in The Independent today in an article about understudies taking over at the English National Opera. Updated 15/6
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May 2010
HollywoodChicago.com has a great review of David Tennant's Hamlet DVD online here. Updated 13/5
Click here to see scans of the photos of David Tennant from Keith Osborn / RSC book called Something Written In The State Of Denmark. Updated 12/5
Tomorrow the nominations for the BAFTA Television Awards are announced. Will David Tennant be nominated for either Doctor Who or Hamlet? Updated 9/5
Click here for probably the best review of Hamlet after its US release yesterday. Updated 5/5
The Keith Osborn book about playing in Hamlet with David Tennant has been published. Click here for more details. It's called 'Something Written in the State of Denmark: An Actor's Year with the Royal Shakespeare Company' and is available from online bookstores. Updated 5/5
The David Tennant / RSC version of Hamlet is released today in the US on both DVD and Blu-ray. Updated 4/5
MovieWeb have copies of Hamlet to win in a competition. Click here for details. It is released in the US tomorrow. Updated 3/5
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April 2010 According to posts on GallifreyBase, David Tennant's Hamlet was watched by 825,000 on Wednesday evening in the US. Generally it was very well received by both fans and critics. Updated 30/4
As promised earlier this week, PBS have the David Tennant Hamlet available online here (US only). They say that the video will be online for 7 years! Updated 29/4
There's a collection of the Hamlet Twitter comments after last nights broadcast (as chosen by production company Illuminations) at this link. Updated 29/4
Tonight PBS in the US premiere the David Tennant / RSC Hamlet. Over the past few weeks there have been a plethora of articles online regading this broadcast. Updated 28/4
MovieWeb have a different clip of David Tennant in Hamlet online here. Hamlet airs on PBS tomorrow in the US. Updated 27/4
The nominations were announce today for the BAFTA Craft Awards. Both David Tennant's filmed version of Hamlet was nominated for the Photography and Lighting Award and Doctor Who (The Mill) for the Visual Effects Award. The award ceremony is on Sunday 23rd May. Updated 26/4
There was a review of Hamlet this morning on Radio 2 by Andrew Collins as the Blu-Ray version is being released. Click here to listen to the review. (It lasts about 4 minutes.) Updated 24/4
Click here to read a Keith Osborn interview about his forthcoming book about playing and rehearsing Hamlet with David Tennant. Updated 23/4
TVSquad have a review and video clips of Hamlet leading up to its US premiere on PBS on 28th April. Updated 21/4
PBS have added a Patrick Stewart interview video (including clips featuring David Tennant) as part of their promo for the PBS airing of Hamlet on 28th April in the US. Updated 16/4
Patrick Stewart makes some nice comments about David Tennant in relation to Hamlet and the theatre in this article in the Sioux City Journal. Updated 16/4
There's a few photos of David Tennant in the new RSC video about their new theatre online here. Updated 15/4
AllOurTV.com are giving away 5 copies of Hamlet in a competition online here. Updated 7/4
Click here to read a review of the Blu-Ray version of Hamlet. Updated 2/4
Click here to see the PBS Hamlet trailer. It airs in the US first on Wednesday 28th April. Updated 2/4
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March 2010 Click here to read the first US press for the screening of the RSC Hamlet on 28th April. One great quote is "Hamlet aired in the UK on Boxing Day at Christmastime 2009, and more than 900,000 viewers tuned in for the BBC broadcast. In an article in The Observer, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote: "Like many people, I had my love of Shakespeare reawakened by David Tennant's TV portrayal of Hamlet over Christmas."" Updated 30/3
Thanks to karenor on LiveJournal, David Tennant's interview in the Virgin magazine electric! has been transcribed online here. (You have to be a member of LiveJournal to view it.) David discusses (briefly) Doctor Who, Hamlet and Rex Is Not Your Lawyer among other topics. Updated 25/3
Tonight's edition of the Evening Standard also has the story about teaching Shakespeare in schools, using David Tennant's Hamlet as an example but with a different photo of David. Updated 11/3
A book by RSC actor Keith Osborn about the rehearsal process and the staging (plus a section about the filming of the DVD too) of David Tennant's Hamlet will be released in May: Keith kept a detailed Blog on the RSC website during the run of the play and this book is based on that. Click here for more details. Updated 8/3
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Februay 2010 The US version of Hamlet is now available to pre-order on Amazon. See here for more details. Updated 27/2
David Tennant has been short-listed for the British Press Guild Award for Best Actor for his roles in Doctor Who and Hamlet. See here for more details. Updated 18/2
Blu-rayNews.com have announced that Hamlet will be released on Blu-Ray on 4th May (which is about a week after it is aired on the US TV station PBS). Updated 17/2
The RSC / David Tennant Hamlet won the Best Shakespearean Production Award at the What's On Stage Awards last night with 30% of the votes. Click here for more details. Updated 15/2
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January 2010
Click here to read an article from The Guardian (with several David Tennant mentions) about a digital Shakespeare archive in Stradtford-Upon-Avon. Updated 28/1
David Tennant's Hamlet is included on the list of "The Weird Experiences of 7 Dead Bodies" on Neatorama.com. Updated 26/1
Click here for an unusual Patrick Stewart video interview. He talks about "David Tennant's Hamlet" (as he calls it!) at around 27 minutes in. Updated 20/1
Sir Patrick Sewart made some nice comments about David Tennant about their time working together on Hamlet which were repeated on FilmReviewOnline.com from the PBS Day at the TCA last week. Updated 19/1
Click here for a video of part of the Q&A from the BFI screening on 14th December. (David Tennant did not attend the Q&A.) BBC4 are repeating Hamlet on Saturday 30th January from 7pm. Updated 17/1
It was a year ago tonight that David Tennant played in the final performance of Hamlet at the Novello Theatre in London. Updated 10/1
The Australian newspaper Courier Mail had an article about David Tennant today. It was basically the interview from the Observer newspaper from a few weeks ago but it did say that Hamlet will be aired by ABC in Australia later this year. Click here for scans by msjdarcy of LiveJournal. Updated 9/1
PBS have added a page (with David Tennant photos) about the US airing of Hamlet on 28th April. Updated 8/1
Today the DVD of Hamlet is officially released in the UK. It can be purchased online or in stores. Updated 4/1
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December 2009 Digital Spy report that Hamlet was watched by 896,000 on Boxing Day. This was the overnights figure and the final figure (available in about 10 days) will be higher. Updated 29/12 An article in Chicago Now (mainly using old quotes) says Hamlet will premiere on PBS in America on Wednesday 28th April. Updated 29/12 The website DavidTennantFan.com has over 700 screengrabs from David Tennant's TV appearances on Doctor Who, Hamlet and QI this week. Updated 27/12 The BBC Hamlet website is now fully open. Updated 27/12 Illuminations have a great summary of all the Hamlet previews ahead of transmission on Saturday. Updated 23/12 Sarah Churchwell of The Guardian reviewed Hamlet on Radio 4's Front Row programme tonight and said "David Tennant's line reading is the best I've ever heard." Updated 22/12 The BBC have posted a video of David Tennant's "Now I Am Alone" soliloquy from Hamlet onto YouTube.com here. Updated 22/12 A video has been posted of David Tennant talking about the To Be Or Not To Be soliloquy from the Learning Zone programme. (It shows a clip from the Hamlet film.) Updated 22/12 Photos of Hamlet have been posted to BlogtorWho here but they contain spoilers if you haven't seen the film yet. Updated 22/12 Would strongly advise you not to watch these until after you've seen Hamlet but the Learning Zone programmes about the making of Hamlet have been uploaded to Live Journal online here. Updated 22/12 BlogtorWho have posted photos from the "Making of Hamlet" part of the DVD online here. Updated 21/12 The really detailed interview with David Tennant by Abigail Rokison from the University of Cambridge is available online here. It is virtually the only in-depth interview David gave during the run of the play. Updated 21/12 DavidTennantBok has posted a 30 second audio clip of David Tennant from the Hamlet programme last night online here. Updated 20/12 It wasn't announced in advance but The Learning Zone on BBC2 (at around 1am) has three programmes about Shakespeare and tonight covered putting Hamlet from the stage to the screen with extensive clips of the RSC Hamlet production and interviews with the actors including David Tennant. The other two episodes in the series are at 1am on Monday morning (21st) and 0.50 on Tuesday morning (22nd). See here for more details. The list of David's TV appearances over Christmas has been updated. Updated 20/12 The Times have a report from the set of the RSC / David Tennant Hamlet online here. (It contains minor spoilers.) Updated 19/12 There's a new RSC / David Tennant Hamlet trailer posted onto YouTube.com. Please be warned that it contains spoilers for the filmed version of the play. Updated 18/12 The BBC Hamlet website is now live. The link is here. Updated 16/12 Last night at the Q&A after the Hamlet screening Patrick Stewart described David Tennant as the "heart, centre and soul" of the production. Updated 15/12 Illuminations have posted an update on Hamlet here which includes a new photo of David Tennant from the film version. They also say that the BBC has made a 30 second trailer of Hamlet which will be shown 200 times between now and the Boxing Day screening! Also the BBC Hamlet website will open later today. The link is here. Extra items will be added to it after transmission on Boxing Day. Updated 14/12 On Sunday 13th December The Times printed a list of their Top Twenty Best Theatre Of The Decade with plays that starred David Tennant at numbers 5 (Hamlet) and 14 (The Pillowman)! Updated 13/12 The BBC website has a page about the Hamlet film. It was announced that they would be making an official Hamlet BBC website but that may now be opened after broadcast and will be especially for schools. However the Open2.net section of the BBC website have a Hamlet section which include photos of this production of the play. Updated 11/12 BlogtorWho has some promo photos of David Tennant from the Hamlet film (DVD). They contain one minor spoiler photo (which was previously printed in the Radio Times too). It's a spoiler because there is a prop which was not used in the stage play. Updated 10/12 John Wyver posted on the Illuminations website that David Tennant will still be filming in Los Angeles week commencing Monday 14th December so he will not be attending the Hamlet screening at BFI in London on the Monday evening. Updated 7/12 A small update about the Hamlet DVD was posted by Illuminations. On Friday 4th the DVD cover went to press and the DVD will feature, in addition to the film itself, a 35-minute "behind the scenes" documentary with interviews with, among others, David Tennant. Updated 6/12 hamsterfur on LiveJournal has posted scans from the David Tennant sections of the Radio Times which contain spoilers. There are photos of him in Doctor Who and Hamlet and an interview. Updated 5/12 The BBC have added a trailer for Hamlet onto YouTube.com. It is being broadcast at 5pm on Boxing Day on BBC2. Updated 5/12 Unfortunately David Tennant did not make the shortlist of nominations for Best Actor in the What's On Stage Awards (or he may not have been eligible as he only played 11 performances in London) but he was listed in the Special mentions section as " The West End Hamlet head-to-head between David Tennant and Jude Law". Also The RSC's Hamlet was nominated in the Best Shakespearean Production Award. Click here to vote. Winners will be announced at the Awards Concert at the Prince of Wales theatre on 14th February. Updated 5/12
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November 2009 The BBC website have added a preview of Hamlet at this link or here for those non-UKers. Updated 12/11 You can vote for David Tennant in the What's On Stage Awards throughout all of November. The shortlist will be announced on Friday 4th December 2009 and the awards will be presented on Sunday 14th February 2010 at the West End�s Prince of Wales Theatre. Updated 3/11 Some of the cast attended a screening of Hamlet in London on Wednesday 28th October. Updated 1/11
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October 2009 and earlier On Sunday 25th October Illuminations posted on Twitter that the only pre-broadcast screening of Hamlet will happen on Monday 14th December at the BFI. Tickets go on sale soon to members, followed by a sale to the general public if there are any seats remaining. Updated 26/10 A very detailed interview with David Tennant by Abigail Rokison about Hamlet was printed in an acedemic journal a couple of months ago and is now available online here. Updated 21/10 Michael Boyd reportedly said that Hamlet will be aired on Christmas Day but Illuminations have said that this is not correct. It is unlikely that the BBC will have decided on their Christmas programming yet. Updated 20/10 The RSC posted on 13th October that the DVD will now be available on 4th January 2010. Updated 13/10 The Hamlet DVD is available to pre-order on Play.com here at �12.99. It will be released on 28th December and the cover photo is here. Illuminations posted after this that the American version will be available to purchase during Spring 2010. Updated 20/9 On Tuesday 1st September Illuminations posted on Twitter "Grade started this morning, with DOP Chris Seager refining the images, adjusting the colours - six-day process, finishing Sat". Updated 1/9 Illuminations have also said that there will be no public screenings until it is broadcast on BBC2 and they now expect that to be sometime during the week before Christmas and New Year. According to Illuminations during the weekend of 22nd / 23rd August composer Paul Englishby and a 15 piece band recorded his original music which was mixed the following day. Starting Monday 24th August there is "further sound preparation" on the filming. Illuminations posted that on Friday 7th August Hamlet was "picture locked". The expected completion date is the third week of September." PlayBill.com have an article about Hamlet in which Gregory Doran says "Contrary to press reports at the time, the RSC always had plans to make a recording of this production but had the inevitable long journey in getting the cast together again and securing funding for this project." On Sunday 2nd August John Wyver from Illuminations posted online here that "We've had back the notes from our co-producers and we've been refining the cut even further. Tomorrow we start the final week of what's called the 'off-line' edit and with luck we'll reach 'picture lock' on Friday. After which we enter the last six weeks or so of final post-production, including the grading, sound mixing and graphics. Everything seems to be on schedule for the moment." The DVD (with extras) will be released the day after transmission in the UK. Hamlet will also be screened in both the US and Japan soon afterwards. In the US it will be screened on the PBS show Great Performances according to an announcement at the PBS panel at TCA on Sunday 2nd August. Hamlet will be screened on BBC in the UK. A date has not been decided yet but it is more likely to be in December rather than October. At the RSC Open Day on 19th July, one of the producers there said that they currently hope to screen it on Christmas Day on BBC2 immediately after Doctor Who is screened on BBC1 but it's too early to know for sure. Hamlet is currently in post-production which will take until at least October. David Tennant and all the RSC cast of Hamlet filmed the play during June on location in Mill Hill, London. The production company Illuminations kept a very detailed Blog during filming here.
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There's a photo of David Tennant from Hamlet on the front cover of the Review Magazine from The Telegraph today in regards to an article about the RSC. Click 